Section fortification Graitz

Section fortification Graitz
Creation time :	Medieval
Castle type :	Höhenburg, spur location
Conservation status:	Departed, ramparts received
Place:	Bad Staffelstein - Frauendorf - "Graitz"
Geographical location	50 ° 3 '41.4 "  N , 11 ° 3' 12.2"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 3 '41.4 "  N , 11 ° 3' 12.2"  E
Height:	490  m above sea level NN

The Graitz section fortification is an abandoned medieval fortification on the northern tip of the eponymous mountain Graitz, a very long and narrow mountain tongue between two brook valleys cut deep into the Franconian Alb . It is located about 1150 meters south-southwest of the Catholic parish church St. Aegidius in the Frauendorf district of the city of Bad Staffelstein in the Upper Franconian district of Lichtenfels in Bavaria , Germany . No historical or archaeological information is known about this section fortification, it is roughly dated as medieval , and could have been built and used as early as the early Middle Ages . A double section fortification has been preserved from the complex, the place is protected as a ground monument number D-4-5932-0100: Section fortification of the Middle Ages .

description

The fortification is about 490  m above sea level. NN height at the top of a narrow, approximately 800 meter long mountain spur, which extends from the plateau of the Dornig to the north. In the west as well as in the north the spur is protected by a deeply cut valley, the so-called devil's hole, through which the Zelsgraben flows further down. The east side was also naturally very well protected by the steep drop over cliffs into a stream valley. To the south to the somewhat wider mountain spur, two walls were built 35 and 100 meters before the top.

literature

• Ingrid Burger-Segl: Archaeological Forays in Meranierland am Obermain - A guide to archaeological and monuments of the early and high Middle Ages . 2nd, improved and enlarged edition. District of Upper Franconia, Bayreuth 2006, ISBN 3-9804971-7-8 , p. 88.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation
2. ↑ Ingrid Burger-Segl: Archaeological Forays in Meranierland am Obermain - A Guide to Archaeological and Monuments of the Early and High Middle Ages , p. 88
3. ↑ List of monuments for Bad Staffelstein (PDF) at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation (PDF; 201 kB)
4. ↑ Location of the section fortification (here referred to as section wall) in the Bavarian Monument Atlas
5. ^ Source description: Ingrid Burger-Segl: Archäologische Streifzüge im Meranierland am Obermain - A guide to archaeological and monuments of the early and high Middle Ages , p. 88